Amidst picnics, parades and fireworks—don’t forget the real significance of the holiday: our celebration of freedom from religious tyranny!

Now, more than ever, in the heightened cultural tensions we have in America, we need to embrace and exercise our right under the First Amendment to speak truth to power—biblical truth on which our nation was founded.

We have the God-given right and duty to speak to and for God, and to live according to His will.

We have the right and duty to speak to God in prayer and worship.

We also have a duty and a right to speak to other persons.

The Lord Jesus Christ, the creator and redeemer and judge of all men, commands us to share the gospel to all.